I know, I know. It’s easy to mock Donald Trump for getting things wrong, especially given that Twitter prioritizes sharp barbs over windy exposition. But do we have to drag him for every little thing?

Last night the president offered his congratulations to the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs, saying in a tweet that they “represented the Great State of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well.” The Chiefs, in fact, play in Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington’s mandarins quickly set about guffawing. Former Missouri senator Claire McCaskill called Trump a “stone cold idiot.” Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough somehow segued the error into Vladimir Putin.

The White House issued an updated tweet correcting the mistake, but I’m not even sure they had to do that much. Here’s a circa 2014 map of which counties in America root for which NFL teams:

To be fair, this is based on Facebook data, which isn’t necessarily the most rigorous means of doing a survey. It was also compiled before the Rams left St. Louis, meaning Missouri is probably mostly red today. Still, is it really Sharpiegate 2.0 to say the Kansas City Chiefs represent Kansas? And is it possible that Trump’s critics need to learn to distinguish between his major blunders and minor misunderstandings?

There are plenty of interesting takeaways from that map so far as football is concerned, with the biggest being that places in between major markets still seem to default to the Cowboys, a holdover from when they really were America’s Team. (And the poor Jets!) But looking at those colored states, you can’t help but be reminded of the electoral map. And to that end, I wonder if there are any places where politics and sports fandom overlap. Chris Cillizza wrote a piece a few years ago about how my native Connecticut is split between Democrats and Republicans roughly along Red Sox/Yankees lines respectively. I tend to think that has more to do with downstate versus upstate—you’ll notice Giants fandom tends to peter out past New Haven County—but it’s still an interesting take.